What to do?

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May 29th, 2001, 04:52 AM
CyberSurfer

What to do?

I'm in the process of building a PC to take to Uni with me, and I'm unable to decide which OS to use between Win 98SE and Win2K Professional. Whichever I choose will be dual booted with Mandrake Linux.

Here's a list of what I usually use my computer for..

1) Programming, mainly in VB
2) Games
3) Web Design (Ultradev, Fireworks)

I'd like you all to vote on the poll, and post why you feel I should go with either OS. Please try to keep this thread sensible, and don't bother Microsoft bashing, coz I don't wanna hear it.

TIA!!
May 29th, 2001, 05:01 AM
Jamagei

Personally I actually found Win2k Pro ran alot slower on my AMD Athlon 850 with 256 Mb RAM (PC133) than Win98 so i would say go for Win98. One thing Win2k Pro has going for it are the effects on the menu bars when they fade in and out instead of just appearing. It's Cool :cool:

but anyway thats just my $0.02
May 29th, 2001, 05:37 AM

All 3!

win98 - for games
win2k (suggest server :)) - for web design and programming
linux - opps, nothing left on the list, better kick it off the list :p
May 29th, 2001, 12:17 PM
CyberSurfer

Anyone else have any thoughts?
May 29th, 2001, 12:19 PM
barrk

Thoughts??? I try to avoid them until after lunch at least!
May 29th, 2001, 12:24 PM
CyberSurfer

:D It's almost Dinner Time here!
May 29th, 2001, 12:26 PM
barrk

I have MANY thoughts after dinner...unfortunately, none I can share here;)
May 29th, 2001, 12:31 PM
CyberSurfer

:eek:
May 29th, 2001, 12:38 PM
parksie

Well that's one of them... ;)

Win2K is a LOT better than Win98, unless your hardware doesn't work with it (like mine) -- even SP2 doesn't fix the problem with VIA chipsets :( On my other PC it's not failed to run a single program :)
May 29th, 2001, 12:56 PM
CyberSurfer

On that note, has anyone else had problems with Win2K and VIA Chipsets, especially KT133?
May 29th, 2001, 12:58 PM
chrisjk

yeah, ask parksie. He was baning on about Win2K and VIA chipsets.
May 29th, 2001, 12:59 PM
chrisjk

okay I just read his post. So when you said "Anyone else" you meant other than you and Parksie. Hmm, in that case, I don't know.
May 29th, 2001, 01:02 PM
Rudy

I would go with ONLY win2k, but that's cause i HATE linux, and dont tell me that i should try it and **** like that, i ran it for over a week and that was proly the worst week of my life lol i thought it would go faster but no its ****ing slow
May 29th, 2001, 01:03 PM
CyberSurfer

I meant anyone other than Parksie...I've never tried Win2K on my machine, which has a VIA KT133 Chipset, hence the question.
May 29th, 2001, 05:05 PM
zmerlinz

Yeah i have a VIA chipset and i was wondering why win 2k don't work for me.

I am in the same prediciment as John here, ME has finally pissed me off and i need to keep it for five more weeks, then bye bye, but again i want mandrake and something else, what else is there that is good

I used to lie win98 but ME is nicer but it can be a pain in the ass,

i think i will go back to 3.1 i like that *mm dos memorys return :)
May 29th, 2001, 05:30 PM

Pual, got to love a geek, has his laptop booting into any one of Win98, WinNT, Linux, and BEOS. BEOS? His major problem is his Star Trek screen saver, (the original don't you know), wont run on all of them. He's in for a surprise this morning, was in a particular good frame of mind, and decide he would much prefer the Wallace and Gromit screen saver. Have warned him about leaving it unattended:rolleyes: